Instead, there were puttering versions of "My Friend Marcus" and "Everything to Nothing," surrounded by more banter.
There you are, sitting in a dark room doing relatively nothing, surrounded by nothing.
Anyone watching Saturday night might have been amazed to see nothing special surrounding the broadcast -- no pregame show, no wrestler kick line, no love ballads to He Hate Me by the lovely Chyna -- to evoke the global significance of the first Million-Dollar Game.
Reading emails is fairly distraction-free as well, as there's nothing else surrounding your message thread – like side menus or options – while reading and replying.
Inside those houses, meanwhile, families such as Mr and Mrs Veneering do nothing but surround themselves with the shiny surfaces of their brand new furniture, as if setting the scene for an endless series of selfies.
Sipping from a lukewarm can of sugar-free Rockstar, I surveyed the bleak scene before me, watching smoke machines billowing out into the nothing that surrounded them.
"It had nothing to do with anything surrounding President Bush.
"All told, over a 50-year period there were 268 property purchases by or collateralizations to Joe Griffin in Decatur County, to say nothing of the surrounding counties," Pearson writes.
And next year, Condé Nast and Fairchild, both divisions of Advance Publications, will launch catalog-type magazines for men who see nothing wrong in surrounding themselves with the best of everything.
"It should never be about gender, it should be about skill set and, thankfully for me, I've had nothing but positivity surrounding my career in football.
